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FinCEN’s Crypto Surveillance Rule Violates the US Constitution

13.1.2021
Proposals requiring crypto companies to report transactions amount to "mass surveillance" and flout the Fourth Amendment

The CFTC Asks Court to Issue Fines in Excess of $100M Against Mastermind of a Fraudulent Crypto Scheme

11.1.2021
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a motion with the New York Southern District Court that seeks heavy penalties against Michael Ackerman, the mastermind of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. According to the motion, the U.S. agency wants the court to order Ackerman to...

New Online System at Mt. Gox May Be Used to Facilitate Bitcoin Refunds to Creditors, Says Trustee

8.1.2021
Mt. Gox’s trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi, has asked creditors of the defunct crypto exchange to register on a new online system so that they might receive their refunds and be able to vote on the civil rehabilitation plan. ● In a statement released Jan. 7, Kobayashi said the registration...

Russian Prosecutor General Coming for Civil Servants’ ‘Hidden Bitcoin’

11.12.2020
The building of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Source: Adobe/Андрей Журавлев The office of the Russian Prosecutor General has redoubled its attempts to force government officials to declare their crypto holdings as part of a bid to wipe out corruption among...

Microsoft Report says Nation-State Hacker Group is Leveraging Cryptocurrency Techniques to Stay Under the Radar

1.12.2020
A new security report by Microsoft says nation-state hacker group Bismuth is now deploying cryptocurrency-mining malware alongside its regular cyber-espionage toolkits. According to the report, the deployment by Bismuth of Monero coin miners in recent campaigns has provided another way for...

Court Filing Accuses Bitmex Cofounders of ‘Looting’ $440 Million Before the Fed Crackdown

2.11.2020
A civil lawsuit has been filed against the firm HDR Global Trading Limited, the parent company of the exchange Bitmex, alongside the three cofounders Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, and Samuel Reed. Plaintiffs allege “the defendants’ Hayes, Delo, and Reed looted about $440,308,400 of proceeds...

Russian Public Officials Must Now Declare Their Crypto Holdings as Income

23.10.2020
Public officials in Russia will now be required to declare all the crypto assets they hold as income. The measures are with effect from Jan. 1, 2021, local media reported. Russia’s prosecutor general Igor Krasnov declared: “Starting next year, civil servants will be required to declare...

‘All’ Russian Civil Servants Told to Declare Crypto Holdings

21.10.2020
Russian public officials will be obliged to declare how much crypto they own, said the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office. Per an official release, the Prosecutor General has introduced the changes in line with the country’s first crypto law, which was approved earlier this year and promulgates...

Mt Gox Rehabilitation Plan Deadline Extended Yet Again, This Time to Dec. 15

16.10.2020
Mt Gox's rehabilitation plan deadline of Oct. 15 has been extended yet again

Mt Gox Rehabilitation Plan Delayed Again to December 15

15.10.2020
The submission deadline for the Mt Gox civil rehabilitation plan has been extended once again, this time to December 15. The deadline has been pushed back at least three times before, including in the latest case, where submission was scheduled for October 15. Mt Gox’s rehabilitation trustee...

Maria Bustillos on Tokenizing Journalism, the Death of Civil and Rise of Brick House

30.8.2020
An early supporter of the now defunct blockchain-based Civil is taking another swing at a writer-owned media collective. She hasn't lost faith in blockchain

Hyperinflation Hits Lebanon: Food Prices Soar 200%, Biggest Crisis Since Civil War

27.7.2020
Lebanon has entered hyperinflation, the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to do so. With a 462% annual inflation rate and food prices rising by almost 200% this month, Lebanon has joined Venezuela in hyperinflating. Meanwhile, the Lebanese pound has lost 82% of its value this year....

The New York Times Proves Why Civil’s Vision Is Still Vital

18.6.2020
News media incentivized to tell the truth in a non-sensational manner is essential for beating racism and other injustice, says our columnist

Bitcoin News Roundup for June 9, 2020

9.6.2020
With the price of bitcoin again struggling to breach $10,000 and volatility falling to recent lows, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with another bitcoin news roundup

2020 Libertarian Presidential Candidate Jo Jorgensen Talks Bitcoin, Endless Wars, Covid-19 Response

9.6.2020
On June 8, news.Bitcoin.com chatted with the U.S. 2020 Libertarian candidate for president, Joanne Jorgensen. The Libertarian Party’s nominee for president is the party’s first female candidate and she is a firm believer in free markets and civil liberties. This week our newsdesk...

Bonus Army, Occupiers, 2020 Uprising: Bitcoin’s Peaceful Protest Is Pure Civil Disobedience

6.6.2020
For twelve days straight, American citizens and a number of countries around the world have been protesting the oligarchs and police brutality. The restlessness from the uprising has slowed down some, but continues in various cities across the nation. On June 3, 2020, a reporter from Los Angeles...